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Prize 28620 - 4 December 2021 - set by Crucible for the Guardian
Across
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Smooth attempt to come across a Martian, perhaps? (9)
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Return Yankee, libelled now and then (5)
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Learned environment made bends in A1! (7)
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Catty old pontiff? (7)
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What edition embodies couldn't stand (5)
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Boss's sore back leads to withdrawal from society (9)
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A nine-ounce bloom developed rarely (4,2,1,4,4)
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Inevitable European tax not binding (9)
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Queen maybe inspires a rare measure in Hatton Garden (5)
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Light displays academician opening golden eggs (7)
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Georgia twice runs home pioneering flyer (7)
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Craving to own new Sierra (5)
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English timeless portrait: 'A Northern Hedonist' (9)
Down
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Front-page lead story on county's a drop in the ocean (10)
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Full of stars, Rhode Island's avoided by festival critic (8)
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It orbits Neptune before appearing in November papers (6)
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Large plain stable dam (4)
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Contemptuously replacing nitrogen with chlorine at regular intervals (10)
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Coy nurse trained guiding light (8)
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Joe's guarding controversial artist's The Twins (6)
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Changed gear crossing border (4)
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We are naked, writhing, aroused again (10)
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Almost a ton of ice (6-4)
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Introduced resident needing surgery (8)
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Silly error is crushing drug for 9 models (8)
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Smoke that surrounds local star (6)
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Disheartened company proclaimed rising stars (6)
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Hirsute, topless, nonchalant (4)
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Earth goddess's odd features of gravitas (4)